GRYPHON BOOKS -- Deadly Dames editor Gary Lovisi has his own publishing imprint, where he has presided over modern and classic hardboiled fiction for over twenty years. He's also the grandmaster of the New York Pulp and Paperback Show.

MAX ALLAN COLLINS -- author of Road to Perdition and co-creator of Ms. Tree, the hardboiled private eye star of comics and novels, who appears in Deadly Dames.